398 ON DISEASES OF THE WEST INDIES. 



in the general hospital here. The malignant, or yellow fever, 

 which raged in all the islands in 1792 and 1795, was exceed- 

 ingly contagious ; many of the attendants on the sick fell 

 victims to it, in Grenada, St Vincents, and Barbadoes. 



CAMPHORATED EMULSION. 



Take camphor sixty grains ; rectified spirits of wine 

 thirty drops ; magnesia twenty grains ; beat these in a stone- 

 mortar, add, gradually, ten ounces of water, and half an ounce 

 of loaf-sugar. One or two table-spoonfuls every three hours, 

 shaking the glass. 



THE PEPPER MEDICINE. 



Take genuine Cayenne pepper sixty grains, common flour 

 five grains, water a few drops, to make a mass of pills, which 

 divide into twelve equal parts, and while fresh, roll in flour. 

 A single pill every two hours, or as occasion may require. 



The Medical Staff of Barbadoes having perused the above 

 report, drawn up by Dr Wright, for the Medical Board of 

 London, unanimously approved of the same and thereunto 

 subscribed their names. 



(Signed) Wil. Wright, M. D. Physician to his 

 Majesty's Forces. 

 W- tr. Straghan, Garrison Surgeon. 

 Josh. Rocket, Surgeon to the Forces. 

 Wit. Hugo, Apothecary to the Forces. 







